Definition: The Queen of Sheba was the queen of a south Arabian country who went to visit the Solomon renowned for his wisdom in the Old Testament about 1000 B.C. Her visit is told in
I Kings 10: 1 - 13 and II Chronicles 9. Sheba was a queen in her own right, possibly of the Sabaeans. What exact area the Queen of Sheba ruled over is debated. It may have covered Ethiopia and Yemen. In Muslim stories about the Queen of Sheba, her mother is a jinn. Stories about her include the murder of her first huband so that she could rule alone, her masculine hairy legs, her "unnatural" refusal to remarry to bear children, and Sheba's later subjugation to a husband from Yemen.
Source: Demonizing the Queen of Sheba: Boundaries of Gender and Culture in Postbiblical Judaism and Medieval Islam Jacob Lassner review by William M. Brinner. Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 116, No. 1. (Jan. - Mar., 1996), pp. 158-160.
Also Known As: Bilquis
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Who do you think you are, the Queen of Sheba?
